Meet the Team     Wheel of Wellbeing Team Amanollah Ghahraman (B.S., C.Y.T.A.) is Wheel of Wellbeing’s foremost yoga instructor and integrates the practice of yoga as a vital component of clients’ journeys toward ease, comfort and complete health.  A well recognized and distinguished master yoga teacher, Amanollah has more than 25 years of experience leading both private and group sessions.  He has extensive experience as a Yoga & Pranic Healer and specializes in treating pain and stress.  Focusing the power of Yoga principals in the realm of pain & stress management (physical, mental & emotional), Amanollah helps clients heal any discomfort and pain related to work or injury, as well as those pains associated with aging.  His expertise also transcends to aiding clients with addiction recovery through yogic practice.  For the past 16 years, Amanollah has been leading transformational seminars for personal & professional growth and is sought out by many as a life & business coach. He has also been the host and producer of several television programs, including “Healing Vision” on PEN Satellite TV, “Mental & Physical Health” on Andisheh TV Satellite TV –  both broadcast in Farsi language nationwide, in Europe and the Middle East – as well as “Yoga with Amanollah,” a weekly show on Southern California’s TV 27 (KZSW) broadcast in English.  Whether working with an audience of many or a private client, Amanollah brings a lightness of spirit and respect that uplifts and inspires people.  His practice complements other integrated modalities at the Wheel of Wellbeing to optimize clients’ grace, strength and overall wellness. Catherine Mullaly (Strategist, Change Agent, Coach) is the President and CEO of CMC Group, LLC, a strategy and leadership consultancy based in Los Angeles and New York. Mullally's career has spanned thirty years and ranged from major media, non-profit and entrepreneurial enterprise. She has server as Executive Director of Susan G. Komen for the Cure in Los Angeles County and held positions at Ogilvy & Mather and McCann Erickson. She led the first commercial project for the Children's Television Workshop then for nearly a decade, led a global packaged media business for MTV Networks (Viacom). In this role, her businesses won over forty awards for excellence and generated billions in retail revenue. She was an original member of MTV's mentoring program, she championed a year-long anti-violence initiative for the creative teams, and swerved on the steering committee for both mentoring and diversity. A founding member of the Creating WE Institute, Mullally is a dynamic public speaker, with appearances ranging from large scale seminars, panels, public presentations, radio and television. Her clients span many industries and include media, financial service, technology, health care, and hospitality. She also focuses on the non-profit sector, start-up businesses and individuals who wish to sharpen their skills. She is a member of the International Leadership Alliance, is the former co-president of the National Eating Disorders Association, and past communication chairperson for the Women's Venture Fund in New York. Diva Yazdian  As a Certified Transformational Breath Facilitator and Energy Healer, Diva shares her profound, yet simple breathing process that can improve an individual's wellbeing in a single session. Through her powerful breathing techniques, Yazdian assists individuals in remembering and reawakening to their highest potential physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Her healing approach integrates western techniques along with the natural healing traditions of the East. Yazdian learned her skills while healing herself from a lengthy illness and now she imparts her extensive knowledge in transformational breathing to Wheel of Wellbeing clients in order to resolve both physical and emotional dis-ease. Dr. Erica Ellis (Psy.D) brings a wealth of integrative knowledge to the comprehensive wellness approach at Wheel of Wellbeing.  Dr. Ellis earned her Doctorate of Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, where her work focused on the intersection between psychological and physiological wellbeing.  Trained in several somatic modalities, including massage therapy, yoga, mindfulness meditation and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, she specializes in the bridge between neurobiology and mind, body and spirit.  Dr. Ellis was previously the Director of Professional Education and Training for Dan Siegel’s Mindsight Institute and in addition to her powerful work at the Wheel of Wellbeing, also serves as adjunct faculty at Antioch University’s Master of Psychology Program.  Her speaking circuit includes national organizations such as The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), University of Southern California (USC), CHADD, The Maple Counseling Center, Mindsight Institute, and CSPP.  She is featured as the brain and body specialist in the forthcoming book Add More ing to Your Life by motivational speaker Gabrielle Bernstein (Langenscheidt Publishing Group/Berlitz). Her complex and varied expertise on bodily health and mind-body-spirit connection bring a vital element to the whole person approach to health at Wheel of Wellbeing.   Dr. Gitty V. Rassouli (MFTI/ATI) brings a wealth of expertise in psychology, working with children, and using art as part of the healing process to Wheel of Wellbing.  A bilingual English-Persian Psychological Assistant, Dr. Rassouli has worked with children in clinical and school-based settings, conducting family therapy sessions and meetings with teachers and school personnel to assist hundreds of families from diverse socioeconomic and psychosocial backgrounds in successfully rearing and educating their children. . Dr. Rassouli provides individual assessments and psychological testing for children and also teaches parenting and parental training. Dr. Rassouli completed her undergraduate studies in economics and art history at the University of New Mexico, completed her graduate studies in Marriage & Family Therapy, and received her Masters of Psychology & Art Therapy from Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles in 2003. She continued her studies at Ryokan College in Los Angeles, where she received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2005. Her education has focused on family dynamics, narrative, art and creative therapy. She has done extensive research in family therapy, general psychotherapy and assessment and treatment of behavioral and deficit disorders. As a psychologist, Dr. Rassouli worked at El Centro De Amistad in Los Angeles for three years, facilitating individual and group mental health counseling for children ages 5-18 years old. There, as the school-based mental health therapist, she collaborated with health-service professionals to develop treatment plans for emotionally disturbed adolescents. She has also worked as a Psychological Assistant (MFTI/ATI) at Advanced Psychological Services, where she implemented art therapy and play therapy techniques within the postmodern approach, working with solution focused narrative and object relations interventions.  Dr. Rassouli brings her deep and varied developmental psychological expertise, as well as her wonderful, restorative experience with the healing use of art as therapy, to greatly enrich the collective wisdom available at Wheel of Wellbeing. Dr.Janelle Haider (MD) specializes in integrative psychiatry and pain management.  She has completed adult psychiatry residency at UCLA, medical school at NYU, and undergraduate education at the University of Minnesota.  She has also conducted neuroimaging research at Baylor. With the goal of providing her patients with the most comprehensive of care, Dr. Haider has furthered her Western biomedical education with several complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) professional trainings.  These trainings include medical acupuncture, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and evidence-based botanical and supplement use.     Although she has a general psychiatry practice, Dr. Haider primarily sees patients with anxiety, depression, and/or chronic pain conditions. After a thorough evaluation, Dr. Haider provides a highly individualized treatment plan that includes, first and foremost, recommendations for stress management, sleep hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and general wellness.  Dr. Haider then combines these lifestyle recommendations with psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and CAM treatments as indicated.  For more information please visit www.JanelleHaiderMD.com. Jaqueline Marie is a LMT and accomplished sound therapist who brings her unique gift of sound therapy to the Wheel of Wellbeing. She studied at the Royal Opera Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium, and has performed throughout Europe. She is an avidly sought after healing practitioner and member of the Sound Healers Association. Jaqueline Marie uses sound, and more specifically her unique and profound voice, to facilitate the healing process in her clients.   As a sound therapist, Jaqueline Marie incorporates a variety of instruments such as Tibetan and crystal singing bowls to bring harmony and balance to physical and emotional conditions in the body. Jaqueline Marie’s sound sessions create a “molecular” massage, stimulating each cell toward its proper resonant frequency. When all cells, tissues, organs and glands are resonating in harmony, profound healing can occur. The music you are listening to was created by Jaqueline Marie specifically for the alignment of the Chakras and relaxation.   Sound is a powerful medium to bring clients’ consciousness to a state of wellbeing. Music and sound have been used in every culture to bring harmony where there is discord, unity where there is separation, and comfort where there is suffering. Jaqueline Marie’s passion is creating this healing experience for her clients at Wheel of Wellbeing. Julie-Anne Belam (Relationship & Love Coach) Passionately believing that the possibilities for our lives are limitless, for the last ten years UK's Love-Facilitator Julie-Anne Belam has been supporting and empowering people to create extraordinary lives and extraordinary love!   She has coached many people through the process of attracting their perfect partner and met and married her beloved Gary using the principles of her Magnetizing Love work. Julie-Anne  is also a certified Physical Trainer, Massage Therapist, Life-Coach, Singing Teacher and Breathwork Practitioner.  She has travelled extensively around the world, training with a variety of teachers and leaders in the fields of transformation, spirituality, holistic healing, breathwork and bodywork.  She was director of Action Andrea, a program she created and initiated to take Breathwork Therapy into women's crisis centers throughout the UK, where she is originally from.   Julie-Anne is so excited to support you in manifesting the miracle of love.   For more details on Julie-Anne's magnetizing love work please visit: www.magnetisinglove.com For details on Julie-Anne's other work please visit: www.fortheloveoflife.co.uk Meredith Locher, (MA, CH) is Wheel of Wellbeing’s expert in the field of Hypnotherapy. With 10 years of experience as an accredited master hypnotherapist she integrates the power of a client’s own subconscious mind into the collective guidance offered to body, mind & spirit at Wheel of Wellbeing.    Meredith has a Master’s degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University and is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotherapy. She has trained in Hypnosis under the world-renowned Calvin D. Banyan at the Banyan Hypnosis Center for Training and Services. In order to become the best hypnotherapist possible, upon completion of her training, she joined the Banyan Hypnosis Center as a staff hypnotherapist to further her training by participating in the supervision program supervised by Cal Banyan himself.   Dr. Marcy Cole (LCSW, PhD) brings a wealth of energy and spirited intuition to Wheel of Wellbeing’s joint approach to Holistic health with her expertise in psychotherapy.  She obtained her B.S. from Northwestern University and her Masters in Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) from Loyola University in Chicago, Ill. Shortly after she received her PhD from The Institute in Chicago for Clinical Social Work, working in both in-patient and out-patient settings.   A practicing Psychotherapist for more than 18 years, Dr. Cole, sees individual adolescents, adults, couples & families.  She focuses on integrating traditional and holistic modalities, with the ultimate goal of aligning mind, body & spirit.  Dr. Cole uses this approach to support her clients in discovering their truest potential, thus finding a greater sense of clarity, vitality and joy in living their best life. Patrick Callahan, CMT, CST. Patrick brings care, quality, and professional attention to Wheel of Wellbeing and his clients. He is a member of Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals, the American Polarity Therapy Association and the International Myomassethics Federation. Patrick also volunteers with The Heart Touch Project, an organization that provides complimentary compassionate touch and massage weekly to persons in hospice and to infants and children in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units in three area hospitals. Patrick became a certified massage therapist in 1990 after completing a 500-hour training and then immediately began to study CranioSacral Therapy. After working part time with private clients, he now devotes himself to a full-time complementary health care practice. Patrick is a certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute. He is also certified by the California Massage Therapy Council.               Dr. Sang K. Lee (L.Ac., MTOM) is Wheel of Wellbeing’s leading acupuncturist, bringing the ancient wisdom of this sage practice to work alongside other healing modalities in optimizing client health & wellbeing.  State licensed and board certified by the California Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Dr. Lee holds a Master of Science degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.  Earning his Master’s degree at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Dr. Lee was not only on the Dean’s List but also graduated with honors.  He is currently earning his Ph.D. in Eastern Medicine from American Liberty University in Orange County, CA, and is scheduled to graduate this Fall, 2009.  He has extensively trained in both Chinese and Korean styles of acupuncture, herbal medicine and Tuina massage.  In fact, he has also studied and done externships at South Korea’s most distinguished Oriental Medical school, Kyung Hee University.  His style of acupuncture is known to be very gentle and surprises even those who are initially fearful of the use of needles.  Dr. Lee has experience in treating multiple health conditions, some of which include acute chronic pain, insomnia, digestive disorders, headache, anxiety, depression, stress reduction, weight loss, women’s health and infertility.                       Dr. Shawn Yarmo (D.C., Q.M.E. Diplomat American Academy of Pain Management - Dr. Yarmo works primarily with the spine, the root of the nervous system through which nerve impulses travel from the brain to the rest of the body. One effect of chronic stress is prolonged muscle tension and contraction. Dr. Yarmo provides gentle spinal adjustments, releases muscle tension, and helps the body to return to balanced, relaxed state. Adjustments further reduces spinal nerve irritation. These changes, in the most cases, are enough to convince the brain to begin the process of healing. A healthy & balanced spine is the key to effectively manage stress. Dr. Susan Crimmins (Ph.D., MSW) is an intuitive, inspirational speaker who conducts trainings and workshops in healing trauma, and who serves as a consultant to educators, therapists, media and criminal justice practitioners across the nation. Her expertise is working with individuals to restore balance within their physiology and their lives after experiencing trauma. In the 1990’s both the death of her niece and her NIH-funded research endeavors in homicide, substance abuse and maltreatment influenced her to shift from epidemiologically based work to clinical interventions in the healing of trauma. From this juncture, a spiritual opening occurred that invited her to explore the nexus between science and soul, which she now incorporates in all of her endeavors.   Dr. Crimmins has trained extensively in several healing modalities including: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Healing Touch and hands on Energy Healing. Dr. Crimmins is certified as an Energy Healer Therapist (EHT) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) in the State of California and is a Clinical Professor in the School of Social Work at California State University at Los Angeles. Dr. Crimmins also is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of New York and holds a doctorate in criminal justice from City University of New York.